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	Dubuque Archdiocese to Pay $4.7 Million Deal Settles Lawsuits Covering 18 More Sex Abuse Victims By Mary Nevans-Pederson Telegraph Herald April 10, 2008 http://www.thonline.com/article.cfm?id=197606 [with link to a written apology from Bishop Jerome Hanus, O.S.B.] The Archdiocese of Dubuque will pay $4.7 million to 18 more victims of sexual abuse by its priests, it was announced today. Click here to read press release. The settlement awards an average payment to each victim of $261,111. The archdiocese has now paid three global settlements - $5 million in 2006 and $2.6 million in 2007 - and other individual settlements with men and women who were sexually abused as children by Archdiocesan priests. Nine accused priests were named in the settlement, at least two for the first time: Rev. John Reed, who served locally at St. Mary Parish in Dubuque from 1960-63 and Rev. Louis Wendling who served parishes in Bellevue, Dubuque and Key West. Both men are now deceased. Turn to tomorrow's TH for full coverage of the settlement.
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